Tai Po Road
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Tai Po Road (Chinese: 大埔公路) is the second longest road in Hong Kong (after Castle Peak Road). It spans from Sham Shui Po in Kowloon to Tai Po in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Initially, the road was named Frontier Road.
Location
The road begins at Cheung Sha Wan Road near Boundary Street and Nathan Road at Sham Shui Po, runs through the valley between Golden Hill and Beacon Hill, and merges into the Tsing Sha Highway in Sha Tin and then the New Territories Circular Road. It then continues northward along Sha Tin Hoi and Tai Po Hoi. It ends at the Tai Po River near Tai Po Market station.
History
Built in 1902, Tai Po Road is one of the earliest major roads in the New Territories. Until the completion of the Lion Rock Tunnel in 1967, Tai Po Road was the main road connecting the New Territories with Kowloon.[1] Before the construction of the Fanling Highway in the 1980s, the road connected Fanling and Sheung Shui.
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The incident was Hong Kong's second deadliest road traffic accident, behind a 2003 incident on Tuen Mun Road that killed 21.[2]
Gallery
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Tai Po Road Piper's Hill Section in June 2008
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Tai Po Road Sha Tin Section in March 2014
See also
- 2018 Hong Kong bus accident
- List of streets and roads in Hong Kong
- Castle Peak Road
- Mang Gui Kiu
- North Kowloon Magistracy, located at No. 292 Tai Po Road
References
External links
- Google Maps of Tai Po Road:
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| Preceded by Shing Mun Tunnel Road |
Hong Kong Route 9 File:HK Route9.svg Tai Po Road — Sha Tin |
Succeeded by Tolo Highway |
- ↑ Cheng Siu Kei, "Making of a New Town: Urbanisation in Tai Po", Tai Po Book p. 271
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